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Friday, August 1, 2025
This past Tuesday I approached a stop-light just behind this car. I’ve whited out its license plate, but haven’t done a thing to the two-word message attached just above: God exist
Two simple words, but a variety of possibilities:
God exist
Is the message-applier making a statement of truth? If “God exists” is the message, “exist” needs an “s.” If on the other hand you put the “s” on “God,” it’s Gods exist, and you’re signaling that there are several deities, and they all are alive and presumably equivalent.
Add in some punctuation possibilities and things get more complicated:
God? Exist? (A skeptical question, doubting if He does.)
God! Exist! (A desperate plea to the Higher Power to show Himself to be real.)
The moral of this little parable, of course, is that you have to spell out enough of your meaning to make sure your viewers get your point. Because God is a subject about whom the “true truth” is vital.
So click on the link just below, and you’ll find a lot of soul-soothing Bible clarification about God.